On the same morning that an explosion shattered the U.S. embassy annex
on the outskirts of East Beirut, another act of terror was being
carried out 29 miles away in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon. In the
small Shi'ite Muslim village of Suh-mur, 13 people were murdered by
militiamen of the Christian-dominated Army of Southern Lebanon,
apparently in retaliation for the earlier killing of four of its
soldiers.

The slayings were just another episode in what has become almost routine
violence in the southern third of Lebanon, where...